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Best Actor in a Minor Role Mejor Actor de Cuadro | 1993 | Daniel Giménez
Best First Work Mejor pera Prima | 1993 | Guillermo del
Best Set Design Mejor Ambientacin | 1993 | Brigitte
Best Special Effects Mejor Efectos Especiales | 1993 | Laurencio
Best Production Design Mejor Escenografa | 1993 | Tolita
Best Screenplay Mejor Guin Cinematogrfico | 1993 | Guillermo del
Best Original Story Mejor Argumento Original | 1993 | Guillermo del
Best Direction Mejor Direccin | 1993 | Guillermo del
1995 | Guillermo del
Cinema Best First Work | 1995 | Guillermo del
1994 | Guillermo del
1994 | Guillermo del
1993 | Guillermo del
1993 | Guillermo del
1993 | Federico
Best Genre Video Release | 1995
Best Picture Mejor Pelcula | 1993 | Guillermo del
Best Film | 1993 | Guillermo del
1993 | Guillermo del
Best Foreign Film | 2014
Best Screenplay | 1994 | Guillermo del
Best Supporting Actor | 1994 | Ron
Best LimitedReleaseDirecttoVideo Film | 1994
1993 | Guillermo del
Best Sound Mejor Sonido | 1993 | Fernando
Best Score Mejor Msica de Fondo | 1993 | Javier
Best Music Theme Mejor Tema Musical | 1993 | Javier
Best Cinematography Mejor Fotografa | 1993 | Guillermo
1993 | Guillermo del
1993 | Guillermo del
In an interview included on the Criterion edition of this movie, Ron Perlman talks about how Angel was meant to speak Spanish fluently. Ron Perlman tried this, but Guillermo del Toro found his reading to be completely unusable. So, the character was changed to an expatriated American who so hates being in Mexico, that what little Spanish he speaks is deliberately spoken poorly.
All of the original Cronos devices created for this film were stolen when production was completed. They were never recovered, so the Cronos devices that Guillermo del Toro owns are replicas from the original molds which Art Designer Maria Figueroa.
The alchemist at the beginning of the movie is named Fulcanelli, which was the pseudonym of a famous french alchemist of the late 19th/early 20th century, who mysteriously disappeared in the 1940s and whose real name and identity has never been known.
The two De La Guardia characters were deliberately intended to be somewhat unreal, like comic book characters. Guillermo del Toro explains in his commentary that he did this as a sort of revenge against Hollywood films about having Mexican characters that are rather stereotypical.
The film went over budget from the original $1.5 million to $2 million (the highest budget for a Mexican movie at the time). Guillermo del Toro himself got the half million through loans and bank debts. In order to complete the film, changes had to be made, among those changes were Ron Perlman, who agreed to a heavy salary cut. Perlman and del Toro have been good friends ever since, working together frequently.
"[discussing why Deiter wants the Cronos] Jesus Gris: He thinks it will help him live longer. Angel de la Guardia: [laughs] That fucker does nothing but shit and piss all day, and he wants to live longer?"
"Narrator: [over the opening sequence] In 1536, fleeing from the Inquisition, the alchemist Uberto Fulcanelli disembarked in Veracruz, Mexico. Appointed official watchmaker to the Viceroy, Fulcanelli was determined to perfect an invention which would provide him with the key to eternal life. He was to name it... the Cronos device. 400 years later, one night in 1937, part of the vault in a building collapsed. Among the victims was a man of strange skin, the color of marble in moonlight. His chest mortally pierced, his last words... Suo tempore. This was the alchemist."
